Dominate the Country

There is no need to play crossfire against the Indians. Just put two or three small cannons on each fort.

Because the Indians' force was basically in the cold weapon era, it was too difficult to attack a fort.

The smart people among them did not fail to see why the Chinese built forts, but they simply could not restrain themselves!

A hundred years before the Chinese arrived in North America, European explorers, missionaries and fur traders came here one after another. The Indians here knew what guns and cannons were, so those wise Indian leaders were so desperate. In such fortifications, only a platoon of troops was needed to garrison, equipped with enough guns and cannons, which was enough to make hundreds or thousands of Indians sigh.

Therefore, these "enlightened" leaders were the main force to surrender and turn eastward. It was the conservative and ignorant Indian tribes who resisted the entry of Chen Han's strength and the arrival of the Chinese.

Therefore, in the new year, the Xue people and the Indians in the Yatu area maintained a strange balance, which was exactly what the upper class of Xue was happy to see. The Xue people built a gun tower, and then gradually expanded the territory and area under their control, squeezing the living space of the Indians little by little with absolute hard power, and finally achieved the goal of completely eliminating the hostile Indians.

Sugita Tomokazu and Jin Taiyong stood on the tower of Nanshui Town, respectfully waiting for Tokugawa Yorimasa, who was holding a telescope to observe the construction of the gun tower, to give them a lecture.

Yes, the general manager of Nanshui Town is Tokugawa Yorimasa from the Kii Tokugawa family, one of the three great families of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The Kii Tokugawa family is one of the three closest branches of the Tokugawa shogunate. The unique Japanese clan system formulated by the second shogun of the shogunate, Tokugawa Hidetada, designated the branches of the Tokugawa family in Owari, Kii and Mito. Their ancestors were: Tokugawa Ieyasu's ninth son Tokugawa Yoshinao (Owari), the tenth son Tokugawa Yorifusa (Kii) and the eleventh son Tokugawa Yorifusa (Mito), the closest relatives of the main family. In terms of status, Owari Tokugawa is the head of the three families, followed by Kii and Mito.

The fifth generation of Kii Domain, Yoshimune, is the eighth shogun of the shogunate, Tokugawa Yoshimune. He is the grandfather of the current shogun Tokugawa Ieharu.

Therefore, the status of the Kii Tokugawa family is quite prominent in Japan.

Such a large family must be deeply rooted. Tokugawa Yorimasa is a member of the Kii Tokugawa family, and also a member of the direct branch. According to seniority, he is also the cousin of the current shogun Tokugawa Ieharu and the cousin of Mrs. Xue Wang.

Although there seem to be many official positions in Japan, each generation of shoguns also likes to adopt their descendants as a means to peacefully conquer local daimyo. But there are always many people who become "lost pearls".

In the original time and space plane, Tokugawa Iesaki, the father of the eleventh shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, was one of them.

Although he was a relative of the Tokugawa family, he had to work under Tanuma Okitsugu, and he had to be appreciated by Tanuma Okitsugu and look at Tanuma Okitsugu's face. This was the only way to let his eight-year-old son succeed after the tenth shogun Tokugawa Iesaki lost his son.

The current Tokugawa Yorimasa is in the same situation. It's just that he didn't choose to continue to wander around in the shogunate, but jumped out of this small corner of Japan. Five years ago, he went to China and Nanjing and became one of the guests and staff of King Xue's "hidden residence".

Although he is only a small "mayor" now. However, the future status of Nanshui Town is well known to everyone. It can be said that as long as nothing unexpected happens, he can build a "county" for the fledgling Xue State, and then it will be easy to jump into Yatu with this merit.

In the final analysis, Tokugawa Yorimasa's identity still adds some points to him.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Tokugawa Yorimasa gave himself a Chinese name early on. His Chinese name is Li Zheng, the Li of Li Tang, which is the most common surname used by Japanese who have become Chinese citizens, in addition to the characters in their own surnames.

And this phenomenon is applied to Tokugawa Yorimasa, that is, a positive attitude.

For China, having an attitude means a lot of things, and a positive attitude is really important.

Tokugawa Yorimasa's status is completely different from Sugita Tomokazu and Kim Tae-yong. The latter two are managers of labor companies in Xue State, that is, white gloves and agents pushed to the surface by the Tokugawa Shogunate and Qingfeng Jin. Sugita Tomokazu is essentially still a Japanese. Jin Taiyong is from the same country as Tokugawa Yorimasa, and even from the perspective of blood relationship, he is also a close descendant of Qingfeng Jin, but this person is definitely of limited importance to Qingfeng Jin.

This time, Qingfeng Jin brought tens of thousands of Korean laborers to America. Although they did not make much money from it, they earned enough favors in front of Chen Lu and Chen Cong. Now that Xue State and Ju State are in ruins and are officially using money and effort, Qingfeng Jin has saved money and contributed to these two countries, which is a great favor.

But in this way, those tens of thousands of Korean migrant workers who were deceived and ran away from their stable little homes will hate Qingfeng Jin in their hearts. Qingfeng Jin is using its past "foundation" - the people's hearts to exchange for current benefits.

At the same time, it was also done for Nanjing to see.

Look, we, the Qingfeng Jin family, are loyal to Nanjing. In order to support the emperor's younger brother, we have squandered the reputation and prestige that our family has accumulated for hundreds of years. This is a good way to show loyalty to Nanjing and make a break with the past.

Of course, Jin Taiyong in front of him is likely to bear the blame for the Qingfeng Jin family. But whether this blame will completely crush Jin Taiyong's life or become a stepping stone for him to enter the mainstream society is hard to say.

In general, Jin Taiyong's future is unpredictable, but Sugita Tomokazu is the savior in the hearts of tens of thousands of Japanese laborers.

Life in America is very tiring, and there is endless work to do every day. But here you can eat and wear warm clothes, and there is a good salary [relative to Japan], and overtime work also has benefits. For the Japanese who come here, it is not a torture, but an absolute treasure land.

Sugita Tomokazu himself has no doubts about being sent to America. Although he and Jin Taiyong have no room for opposition to this decision, nor do they have the courage to oppose it. But in his heart, Sugita Tomokazu is very happy.

He spent three years in America and established good relations with Ju and Xue. In the future, maybe he can use the connections he made in these three years to do a labor export business.

Just like this kind of business, how easy and simple it is.

Just pull people from Japan to America and hand them over to the Chinese. In the next few days, he can just sit and wait to collect money, and he can also send his confidants to the construction site from time to time, and he will definitely get the best reception. At the same time, he can also win a reputation among his compatriots [Japanese]. This is a business that can't be better.

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Osaka Bay, Japan.

Just as Sugita Tomokazu was thinking about his own little calculations, the scenes that have been repeated in Japan in recent years began again.

Because a few years after the end of the Tianming famine that disturbed a quarter of Japan, Japan experienced a second famine.

The scope of this famine is far less than the previous Tianming famine, but the intensity is also significant.

First, natural disasters such as the Dewa flood, the Ou flood, and the Kanto storm continued to occur, causing food prices in Japan to continue to rise. Of course, although Matsudaira Sadanobu's Kansei reform ended in failure and made Japan unstable, the town hall in Edo still existed and was still adjusting prices. Moreover, after Tanuma Okitsugu left office, no matter how bad the results of Matsudaira Sadanobu's reform were, food production in Japan did increase. In order to suppress commerce, Matsudaira Sadanobu vigorously rewarded food crop production, restricted the planting of cash crops, stored grain for famine prevention, afforestation, and water control. In the past few years, he repeatedly issued the "Old Village Return to Farming Reward Order", set up a "Vagabond Shelter" in Edo, persuaded urban vagrants to return to their hometowns to farm, and prohibited farmers from leaving their hometowns to enter the city to ensure rural labor.

However, his overly tough approach, coupled with the failure to truly revitalize Japan's rural economy, could not stop the development of the commodity-money economy, which caused dissatisfaction among merchants, upper-class samurai and the majority of farmers. At that time, there was a satirical folk song, "Shirakawa (referring to Shirakawa Lord Matsudaira Sadanobu) The water is clear but it is difficult to raise fish, and the muddy fields are worth missing." The failure of his reform can be seen.

At that time, Tanuma Okitsugu was a character that everyone in Japan wanted to kill.

Osaka is a commercial center in Japan, a bit like the Japanese version of "Shanghai", but since last year, the number of abandoned babies in the city has increased, and the lower-class citizens have become even more impoverished. In the same year, a riot that destroyed rice shops occurred in Hyogo. Soon after, a peasant uprising of 10,000 people occurred in Harima, affecting Kato, Minang, Inami, Kako, Taka, and Mizukami counties. The Osaka Town Magistrate immediately sent people to suppress it, but rumors and slogans continued to appear, and people in the city were panicked.

In this case, China no longer needed to buy prisoners from the shogunate army that suppressed the civil unrest. Their bases in major ports in Japan were able to gather hundreds of Japanese people who actively requested "immigration".

After these Japanese immigrants "immigrated", they could only get yellow books, not red books. The conditions they faced when they immigrated to other places were much more harsh than those of Chinese immigrants. If Chinese immigrants could work hard for ten years to achieve a well-off life, it would take more than ten years for Japanese immigrants to pay off their debts. And if they want to obtain Chinese nationality after immigration, they will have to pay a great price.

At this time, at the Osaka Bay dock, a group of pale-faced people were quietly waiting for the arrival of the ship, quietly leaving silent tears.

The Japanese were deeply influenced by Chinese culture, and the perception that people are worthless when they leave their hometowns also exists in the minds of thousands of Japanese civilians. Moreover, most of the people on the dock in front of them were women and children, a small number were half-grown teenagers, and as for adult men, they were a minority among the minority. They were basically wives and daughters who had lost their husbands or relatives, and some were sold by their husbands and families. Their sources were relatively complicated, but most of them were people near Osaka Bay. As the Osaka Town Magistrate dispatched the new army to suppress the local area, a large number of Japanese people fled their homeland. Among them, there were too many displaced women and children, or women and children who were separated from their relatives.

And these people happened to be the group that Chen Han liked to gather, because most of them were women, and almost all the women sent to immigrate were in their fertile period, and very few were over 30 years old.

The children who were also sent were rarely over 10 years old.

And the few young and strong Japanese men, after they went to the "immigration area", they were treated as coolies and worked hard. Without spending two or three years first, they could not "get" freedom.

The Japanese certainly knew the Chinese intention of collecting so many young women. There were many singles among the Chinese immigrants. Many young men in their twenties married widows in their twenties or thirties. The Chinese collected so many Japanese women and transported them abroad, of course, to send them to be wives. However, the Japanese government was limited in strength. They did not want to see such a scene, and they did not have the ability to take over these tens of thousands of refugees. They also had difficulties in money and food. Leaving these Japanese women and children behind would be pushing them into the fire pit.

After they signed an agreement with the Chinese, they could get two bowls of porridge a day. Although some people would still die due to malnutrition, lack of medical care and diseases, with the care of the Chinese and the treatment of Chinese doctors, the living environment was much better.

Take the past winter as an example. If the Tokugawa shogunate took over these tens of thousands of refugees, the shogunate would definitely not be able to deal with them properly. In the cold winter, these people will die in large numbers. It is not impossible that a heavy snowstorm will freeze hundreds of women and children to death. Therefore, handing these people over to the Chinese is to leave them a way to survive.

Of course, when these people go to the Chinese to sign an agreement, they must adhere to the principle of voluntariness. They cannot be packed and sent to the Chinese like selling piglets, otherwise it is likely to affect the stability of the entire Japan.

At the same time, Japanese Buddhism has also made contributions here, and they have played a role in stabilizing the hearts of Japanese refugees.

So, under such a background, many women and children gathered in Kobe, Osaka, Nagasaki, and even the ports of Edo.

The Chinese "guides" are like "teachers" who engage in pyramid selling. They praise Nanyang, Nanmingzhou and North America as fairyland, which makes a lot of women and children who are usually hungry, cold, and threatened with life from time to time very tempted. And the result is that they are transported to other places in a steady stream!

People are not plants, who can be heartless. At the time of parting, many people were naturally reluctant to leave. After all, no matter how bad Japan is, it is their hometown for the rest of their lives.

But Chen Ming was very happy.

He fully affirmed the work of the Immigration Bureau.

This is a good deal. It focuses on attracting young Japanese women, girls and young children. It's a good idea.

The former can be used for national integration, and the latter has great plasticity. It won't be raised to a group of ungrateful people.

Chen Ming thinks this strategy is necessary.

And the identity of a Japanese woman also makes him feel happy.

In his previous life, Chen Ming will never forget the hatred between China and Japan. Now he strongly supports the Tokugawa Shogunate and supports the Tokugawa Shogunate to deprive the Japanese royal family of their prestige and presence among the people. China and Japan really can't become enemies. Unless the Japanese royal family and public family, who have no soldiers, no power and no money, can make a big comeback, otherwise Japan can only be China's little brother.

Even if China is the big brother, it can't beat the little brother for no reason. Right?

In this way, the Immigration Bureau can indirectly avenge Chen Ming, which makes Chen Ming feel very happy. This really pleases me.

Although the height of Japanese women in this era is a bit like that of disabled people...